A New England resident and his mom recently had quite a lucky streak. The mom won $500 on a scratch-off in their home state, and used that money to travel to Maryland with her son to attend the Capital Jazz Festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia.
While at the event, they visited the Maryland Lottery booth. On Saturday, his mom bought one ticket and didn’t win. When they returned on Sunday, the son’s scratch-off purchase had a different outcome, although they didn’t know immediately. They took their $20 Lucky 777 ticket and waited to scratch it until they returned to their hotel that evening. That’s when they learned his ticket was a $50,000 winner.
The Capital Jazz Fest is one of dozens of events the Lottery attends throughout the year. At the Lottery’s booth, attendees 18 or older can take a free spin of our prize wheel to win various Lottery promotional items. At select events, a Lottery retailer is on site selling tickets. The retailer joining the Lottery at this event was York Road Plaza Wine and Spirits. Their store is located 6360 York Road in Baltimore County.
The winner, who is an entrepreneur, was very excited about his win and had no problem making a second trip to Baltimore to claim his prize. He plans to save and invest his windfall.
The Lucky 777 game hit stores on May 19. It began with six $1 million and eight $50,000 prizes. There are still five $1 million, five $50,000 and hundreds of thousands of prizes between $20 and $10,000 remaining.
